the(new)mediaslut

Decisive Publications revealed a new contributor in her edition of Commsday ASEAN today.

A.M. Doncaster highlighted the uproar that Singnet is getting from her subscribers for not putting up a fight against ODEX.

"Subscribers to Singnet are up in arms after it was revealed that the ISP subsidiary of Singtel did nothing to protect subscribers’ private information when Singapore-based anime distributor Odex served a court order seeking to identify alleged copyright violators via IP addresses," wrote Doncaster.

"Ernest Lau, the district judge who presided over the case of Pacific Internet vs Odex, revealed on Thursday that Singnet consented to Odex’s court order without any legal objection.

"The judge found that Pacific Internet owed its subscribers a duty of confidentiality under the Telecommunications Competition Code and Odex could not be granted the order unless the distributor could satisfy that burden of proof.

"Furthermore, the district judge also ruled that Odex was only a sub-licensee and, thus, the animes in question were not entitled to similar protection enjoyed by the original copyright holder or the exclusive licensee under the Copyright Act.. The judge was also unconvinced of the method used to pinpoint the copyright perpetrators via their IP addresses—which are allocated dynamically in the main in Singapore."

Grahame Lynch, publisher for Commsday ASEAN, only described Doncaster as an "armed spy".